- The Salt Lake Tribune obtained the affidavit and published it on Saturday, revealing that Bateman and several co-conspirators had been accused of a litany of sex crimes against minors as well as tampering with evidence and attempting to obstruct the investigation into their conduct.
- Bateman, according to the affidavit, felt “prompted” to marry his own teenaged daughter in 2019.
- His wife and daughter left the home following that revelation, but he and several followers began collecting girls in the months that followed.
